Improvement in spring bed-bottoms



J. BATES.

SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Patented Aug. 29, 1876.

UNITED STATES P TE T QFFIGE.

JEREMIAH BATES, OF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,552, dated August29, 1876; application filed April 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH BATES, of J anesville, in the county ofRock and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bed-Bottoms, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing. I

The object of my invention is to produce a bed-bottom that will becheap, durable, and in every way comfortable, and at the same time keepclean and sweet and free from bugs. This I accomplish by a wovenmetallic wire netting, A, stretched upon coiled springs D, forming aselvage, a a a a, of the same material woven around the border. The wireused for this netting is to be of such size as experience shall prove tobe the most suitable, and may be of iron, copper, steel, or any metallicsubstance, and painted, varnished, or galvanized, if desired, and themesh to be ordinarily about one-fourth (5;) of an inch, but I do notconfine myself to any particular size, as regards the wire used or themesh, but expect these will vary according to circumstances.

I claim as my invention- The yielding woven-wire netting A, with itsselvage-border, in combination with the coiled springs D of abed-bottom, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

. JEREMIAH BATES.

Witnesses:

-ED. F. CARPENTER, S. HENRY HUDSON.

